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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

AUGUST GUSTAVHERMANN OEHMS, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

RECORDING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,478, dated December22, 1896.

Application filed July 15, 1895.

To {LZZ whom it may concer/1,:

Be it known that I, AUGUST GUsrAv HER- MANN OEHMS, a subject of the Kingof Prussia, Emperor of Ger1nany and a resident of Berlin, Germany, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in RecordingApparatus, ofwhichthe following is a specifi- The object of my invention isto providea new and improved apparatus for recording quantities of wine, beer,kerosene, the., drawn from suitable receptacles, which apparatusproduces a line or mark on a suitable movable paper band every time l aquantity of liquid is drawn, said mark correspondingin length exactlywith the quantity of liquid drawn, so thatthe apparatus prevents alldeln the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,and in which like letters indicate like parts in all the figures, Figurel is a front view of myimproved controlling device for vending liquids.Fig. 2 is aplan View. 1 Fig. 3 is a side View of the same. Fig. 4 is avertical transverse sectional view `through the measu rin g-cylinder andthe cocks on the same. Fig. 5 is adiagram view illustratin g the two endpositions of the levers for shifting the cocks. i

The cylinder a, which serves for measuring the liquids, is secured .onthe standard Z9 on the table c, having legs (Z. `The piston e is mountedin the cylinder a and permits the liquid to enter the cylinder throughthe cock through the cook g. A cross-bar Z1. is connected with the upperend of thepiston-rod e and the free end of a powerful helical spring vlexerts an upward pressure on said cross-bar and tends to raise thepiston and keep it raised. Thehand-lever Z, pivoted on brackets Zt ofthe table c, rests upon the upper end of the piston-rod e and serves forforcing the piston downward. The said lever also serves for opening andclosing the cocks fand g by means of the levers 'm and n and theconnecting-rods ml` and n.

By means of a tracing-wheel 0, mounted on one end of the cross-bar Zz,the movements of the piston e are traced on a paper band contained in acasing O, means being provided for shifting the paper band after eachstroke Serial No. 556,096. (No model.)

of the lever Z. `The shifting of the paper is alsoproduced i from thelever Z by means of the ratchet-wheel p, which is mounted on the shaft 7of the leverZ and engaged by a springpressed pawl q on the lever Z. Byturning the ratchet-wheel p and the shaft r the bevel cog-wheels fr" andr2 and. the shaft st are rotated, and from the latter the shaft o `inthe casing O is rotated by means of the toothed wheels s and s?, toWhich shaft o' one end of the paper band is attached. `Within the casingthe paper band is unwound from the shaft o2 and wound upon the shaft o.

The casing O is provided with a slot in lwhich the tracing-wheel 0 canmove up and down.

As the paper` band should not be shifted as long as theperforating-wheel is engaged with the same, the ratchet-wheel p and pawlq are so arranged that the ratchetwheel is not turned until` the lever Zhas completed the greater part of its upstroke.

`The cocks f and g are so arranged that the cock f is closed when thelever Z is in the posit-ion shown in Fig. l and the cock gis partlyopened. i By the movement of the lever Z in the direction of the arrowthe cock g is first opened completely and then closed gradually.Thereuponthe cock f is opened gradually, the cock g remaining closed.

-So as to prevent the piston e from rising under the action of thespring t' until the cock g has been fully closed and the cock f openedt0` a certain extent, a ratchet-bar t, pivoted on the plaie c and actedupon by a spring c', engages `a sharp edge of the cross-bar Zz.

`The lever Z is provided with an angular arm t', which at the propertime presses the ratchetbar t to one side, so as to permit the spring t'to move the piston e upward. cylinder is filled with liquid, passing tothe same through the pipe f. When the piston is in its highest position,the tracing-wheel o is disengaged from the paper band. llf the lever Zis moved upward still farther, the pawl q causes a shifting of the paperband in the manner above described. If 'the lever Z is pressed downward,the cock f is closed and the pawl q slides over the ratchet-wheel 19.The angle-arm t strikes against the hinged end piece t2 of theratchet-bar t and tilts the same, and when the angle-arm t' slides offThereby the ICO said end piece t the latter is brought back into itsoriginal position by a flat spring acting on it. When the angle-arm t'is moved in the reverse direction, the end piece t2 cannot be tilted, ascan be seen from'the drawings. After the angle-arm t/ has passed theratchet-bar t the cock f is closed and the cock g is beginning to open.The quantity of liquid delivered corresponds exactly to the distancetraveled by the piston, and this distance is recorded by thetracing-wheel o on the paper band in the casing O.

It is evident that by observing the number and lengths of marks iliadeby the wheel 0 on the paper band one can tell how often and how muchliquid has been drawn.

In most saloons different quantities of liquor are sold for the sameprice accordingly as they are to be drunk on or off the premises, andthe several rows of perforations or marks will also show whether theliquor was sold to be drunk on the premises or not, if for each priceand the different purposes for which the sale wasl made correspond withmarks of different sizes.

If, forexample, certain quantities of liquids are sold for iive, ten,and fifteen cents on the premises and for ten and twenty for consumptionoutside of the premises, marks of five different lengths are used andthe band of paper is divided into five parts by longitudinal lines. Thelever Z is thrown up very far, even for small quantities of liquid, asappears from Fig. 5, and can turn the ratchet-wheel p before thetracing-wheel begins to act. The said lever Z does notact on thetracing-wheel, but serves to release the locking devices of thespring-pressed piston after said lever Z has traveled a certaindistance, whereupon the ratchet-bar t is tripped and the spring-pressedpiston released. The lever Z is used to press the piston down again,which piston is locked in lowered position automatically. The lever Zbefore being pressed down, however, has moved upward far enough torotate the ratchet-wheel p.

After the band has been unwound the prices can be written at the severalmarks and then added. y

My invention is not changed materially if the lever and other actuatingparts are replaced by other mechanism, as it is only essential that themovements of the piston are correctly recorded and a mark of differentlength used for each different quantity of liquid drawn.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an apparatus for recording quantities of liquid drawn, thecombination with a measuring vessel, of an inlet and an outlet cock forthe same, a piston in said vessel, which piston is moved up and down asthe vessel is filled and emptied, a lever for depressing the pistonmeans for recording the movements of the piston on a paper band andmeans for shifting the band means for operatin g the inlet and outletcocks from said lever successively, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

2. In an apparatus for recording quantities of liquids drawn ,thecombination with a measuring vessel, of an inlet and an outlet cock onthe same, levers for operating said `cocks, in such manner that theinlet-cock is closed when the outlet-cock begins to open and. theoutlet-cock is closed when the inlet-cock begins to open, a piston inthe measuring ves sel, which piston can be depressed by the same leversthat serve for manipulating the valves means for recording the movementsof the piston on a paper band and means for shifting said bandsuccessively, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In an apparatus for recording quantities of liquid drawn, thecombination witha measuring vessel, of an inlet-cock and an outletcockon the same, a piston in the measuring vessel, a rod on the piston, across-bar on said piston-rod, a ratchet-bar engaging said crossbar andholding it t'or a time, a lever for operating the cocks, an angle-arm onsaid lever for throwing out the ratchet-bar, a spring for raising thepiston, means for recording the movements of the piston on a paper bandand means for shifting the paper band, successively, substantially asherein shown and described. v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 29th day of June, 1895.

AUGUST GUSTAV HERMANN OEHMS.

Witnesses WM. HAUPT, HERMANN OnLnR'r.

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